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COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and her august Mother attended Divine Ser vice yesterday morning at the New Palace. The Rev. Dr. Short, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, officiated, and the Bishop of London preached the Sermon. The Duchess of Glocester visited her Majesty yesterday. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen. The Royal dinner party on Saturday included the Marquis of Ileadfort, the Earl of. Uxbridge, Hon. Mrs. and Miss Ca vendish, and the Hon. C. Murray. The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards were in attendance at the Palace, and performed favourite selec tions the whole of the evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine Service, yesterday morning, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The readers were the Rev. Messrs. Haden and Barham ' • the Sub dean officiated at the altar ; and the Bishop of Chichester preached the sermon from the 14th Romans, and the l'ith verse. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Clinton, Miss Hudson, wad Earl Howe. The Duchess Dowager of Richmond, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Bandon, and Lords Stuart de Rothesay and Eliot, Were amongst the Nobility present. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Geor g e and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr, Baron Knesbeck, and Colonel Cornwall, went to Kew yester day morning, and attended the re-opening for Divine Service of Kew Church. The Princess Augusta attended Divine Service yesterday morning in St. Philip's Chapel, Regent-street. Her Royal Highness was attended by Miss Wynyard. The Duke of Sussex had a dinner party on Saturday at Ken sington Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Was present. The Royal Duke had afterwards an evening party. The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George honoured the Earl and Countess of Albemarle with their company at dinner on Saturday in Berkeley-square. The Duchess of Gloucester honoured the Countess Sebas tiani with her presence on Thursday evening at the assembly given by her Excellency. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Ministers except Viscount Duncannon. The Council sat two hours. Lord Hill had an interview with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday. Despatches from Spain were received yesterday at the Fo reign -office. The Prussian, Belgian, Bavarian, and Spanish Ministers transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Despatches were sent off from the Colonial-office for the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar on Saturday evening. Lord John Russell gave a Parliamentary dinner on Satur day, at his residence in Wilton-crescent. LITERATURE• MEMOIRS OF GRIMALDI. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1838. Boz has here dished up for us just the sort of piquant, dainty volumes that we were prepared to expect from him ; and introduced them by a lively and pointed preface, wherein he alludes to his childhood's recollections of pantomine and its wonders, in a very delightful, gossipping vein. Those who are fond of laughable characteristic anecdotes of the green-room ;of singular adventures, which, in one or two instances, have quite the air of romance ; and of personal sketches of the most remarkable public men •f the day, Royalty itself included—those who are fond of this sort of light reading, may lay their account to deriving a world of amusement from these Memoirs of Grimaldi, which are as full of odd adventures and startling vicissitudes of fortune, now of a serious, now of a highly comic character, as if they were all action—instead of being what they are, all truth— from beginning to end. The subject of them, Joe Grimaldi, who, by the bye, was one of the best clowns that ever grinned through a horse-collar, or pocketted a " sassenger," on the boards of a British theatre, seems to have been a man of extreme simplicity and goodness of heart—quite a child in all worldly matters—though he had a quick con ception of the peculiarities of character, as is evident by the style of his numerous personal anecdotes, and of his occasional reflections on them. We remember him very wellin the days of our undoubting boyhood, and have enjoyed a heartier laugh over his uncommon faculties of appropria tion as clown, than we can ever expect to enjoy again, even were Liston again to be what he was ten years since. Yet this inimitable clown, whose life seemed to be but one brood grin, was, it seems, for no inconsiderable portion of his professional career, a prey to disease and anxieties of all sorts, and often convulsed his audience with laughter when his own heart was ready to burst with grief. He died, ere he bad yet pacsed the autumn of life, worn down by the effects of continuous illness, and, still more, by the frantic conduct of his only son, to whom he was warmly attached, and who, in return, by his scandalous excesses, broke his father's heart. This is a painful chapter in these otherwise merry volumes, which do great credit to Grimaldi, and place his character before us in a very amiable light. As a specimen of their manner, we select an extract taken at random from the second volume : In the July of this year, a very extraordinary circumstance occurred at Sadism Wells, which was the great topic of conversation in the neigh bourhood for some time afterwards. It happened thus :—Captain George Harris of the Royal Navy (who was related to the Mr. Harris of Covent Garden, and with whom Grimaldi was slightly acquainted,) had recently returned to England after a long voyage. The crew being paid off, many of the men followed their commander up to London, and pro ceeded to enjoy themselves after the usual fashion of sailors. Sadler's Wells was at that time a famous place of resort with the blue-jackets : the gallery being sometimes almost solely occupied by seamen and their female companions. A large body of Captain Harris's men resorted hither one night, and amongst them a man who was deaf and dumb, and had been so for many years. This man was placed by his shipmates in the front row of the gallery. Grimaldi was in great force that night, and, although the audience were in one roar of laughter, nobody appeared to enjoy his fun and humour more than this poor fellow. His compa nions, good naturedly, took a good deal of notice of him, and one of them, talked very well with his fingers, inquired hew he liked the enter tainments ; to which the deaf-and-dumb man replied, through the same medium, and with various gestures of great delight, that he had never seen anything half so comical before. As the scene progressed, Grimaldi's tricks and jokes became still more irresistible; and at length, after a violent peal of laughter and applause which quite shook the theatre, and in which the dumb man joined most heartily, he suddenly turned to his mate who sat next him, and cried out with much glee, " What a d—d funny fellow:" " Why, Jack," shouted the other man, starting back with great sur prise, " can you speak ?" " Speak I" returned the other; " ay, that I can, and hear too." Upon this, the whole party of course gave three vehement cheers, and at the conclusion of the piece adjourned in a great procession to the " Sir Hugh Middleton," hard by, with the recovered man elevated on the shoulders of half a dozen friends in the centre. A crowd of people quickly assembled round the door, and great excitement and curiosity were occasioned as the intelligence ran from mouth to mouth, that a deaf.and.dumb man had come to speak and hear, all owing to the clever. ness of Joey Grimaldi. JANE LOMAX; OR, A MOTHER'S CRIME. By the Author of " Brombletye House." In 3 Vols. London, Colburn, 1838. The incidents comprised in this novel are neither nume rous nor complicated. Mr. and Mrs. Lomax, the former a poor clerk in a lawyer's office, attract the notice of Died rich Hoffmann, a German, and confirmed eccentric old bachelor, who has amassed a large fortune as a sugar-baker at Bristol, and who, in a fit of very usual generosity, allows them, with two children, to occupy apartments in his house in the capacity of house-keepers. A mortal illness seizes him, when he produces a will in favour of a nephew whom he had previously disinherited for marrying a poor actress. At the suggestion of his wife, Lomax is tempted to forge a will, bequeathing the dying sugar-baker's property to him self, and this document being substituted for the original instrument, is executed by Hoffman, who affects the greatest mystery about the disposal of his property, and will not uffer the will to be looked at by any of the witnesses. In he commission of this crime, Mrs. Lomax—who by the ~v l ayis a Lady Macbeth in masquerade—is instigated Isolely by an excessive maternal love for her son Benjamin, 'a mere youth, but of a constitution so delicate that she fears he will never be able to encounter the drudgery of the counting-house. When her joy is at its height her son dies of consumption ; she herself commits suicide ; her husband becomes a drunkard, and dies in despair in a fit of delirium tremens ; the daughter languishes through life a moping old maid ; and—with the usual regard to novelists' conceptions of the ultimate decrees of a retributive Pro vidence—the sugar-baker's nephew recovers the property left him by his uncle. It will be seen that the moral which this story works out is as old as the hills ; and as for the characters, some of them are so exaggerated as to ap proach the limits of caricature. Here and there may be met with passages of great beauty, but the impression made upon our mind by a perusal of the whole is neither very striking nor very pleasing. All the characters talk too much to no purpose, and appear too often without any conceivable object, save to weary and perplex the reader. But it will not fail to obtain admirers in the drawing-room, and will be sure to create a sensation at all the fashionable watering-places. The love episodes are unexceptionable for tenderness and disinterestedness on the part of the young ladies, who are all heroines of the first order, and think no more of sacrificing love to the entreaties of friendship, or the dictates of (linty, than they would of presenting a child with a trinket, or a waiting-woman with a pair of gloves. The only naughty woman introduced in the tale is Mrs. Lomax, and even she is respectable for her decision of character, which she perpetually displays, like most clever women, to the annoyance of her c hicken-hearted husband. The ladies have, therefore, every reason to be satisfied with Mr. Smith's gallantry. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN, EARL OF ST. VINCENT, G. C. 8., ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, By EDWARD PELHAM BRENTON, Captain, R.N. In 2 Vols. London, henry Colburn, 1838. We have learned with surprise and pleasure that it was long the intention of Lord Brougham to write the life of the heroic subject of this interesting memoir. Highly, how ever, as we estimate the Noble and Learned Lord's abilities, we do not regrot that he left this just tribute, to the memory of a gallant officer, to be performed by one of our most deservedly popular naval historians. In addition to Captain Brenton's naval sympathies, and accurate knowledge of the profession, he had the advantage of enjoying for many years the friendship, and even the confidence of the veteran Commander —of having h: during his Lordship's life-time, free access to his papers— and of hearing from his Lordship's lips, explanations of some of the most complicated events is his naval and ministerial career. Besides, the Earl St. Vincent's character was not one which required for its due de velopement the employment of those great powers of subtle analysis for which Lord Brougham is so pre eminent. The Earl of St. Vincent was as brave an officer as ever unsheathed a sword in the service of his country ; but he was also an indifferent politician, and had no pretension to a knowledge of the leading principles of exalted Statesmanship. He was an enemy to the educa tion of the poor—hated vaccination, because it prevented the death of a surplus population, and so set at nought the decrees of Providence !—and could never dis cover anything wrong in military and naval impressment. With the feelings of such a man, however generou s in other respects , Lord Br ougham coul d have few sym pathies ; and while the history of slavery remains to be written —a work which Lord Brougham is better capable of writing than any man in England—we trust his Lordship will not devote an instant to pursuits less congenial to his taste, and less likely to rivet the connection between the names of Brougham and Wilberforce. Captain 13renton has performed the part of bio grapher of his illustrious friend with judgment and fidelity. One-third of the volumes at least is com- FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Prideaux Brune and family, at their resi dence, Bryanston• square, from Paris ; Lord and Lady Mun easter and suite, at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Muncaster Castle, Cumberland; Mr. and Mrs. Arcedeckne, in Grosvenor-square, from Glevering Hall ; Lady Stepney, in Henrietta-street; Lady and Miss Duff Gordon, in Hertford street ; Colonel and Mrs. Nugent and family, in Hill-street ; Lady Lucy North, in Manchester-square, from Wildershere ; Colonel and Mrs. Baillie, in Mortimer-street ; Lord Warren Vernon, from his seat, Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire; Mr. Evelio Shirley, M. P., in Suffolk-street, the Hon. Francis Scott, in John -street, Berkeley-square; Mrs. Dundas Scott, in Gros venor-street, West. IF . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER TRADE Clll.. 11 to 2 agst Mr. Alostyn's Birdlime 7 to I agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley 17 to 2 agst Mr. Price's Wentworth 9 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Mersey—taken 10 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan 12 to 1 agst Mr. Clarke's Magician 14 to I agst Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab 15 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Parslles 17 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lord Stafford 100 to 6 agst Captain Lamb's Chit Chat 100 to 6 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Combat—taken 100 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catherina—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. T. Walters's King Cole 20 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Galewood 25 to 1 against any other. DUNCHURCH STEEPLE CHASE. This affair came off on Friday last, and excited more than usual interest. The following started : Mr. Marshall's Foreigner Oliver 1 Lord M ac dunald's The Nun Mason 2 Mr. W. Cooke's Manchester He c oon 3 The following also started, but were not placed:—Mr. Jenkins's Midnight, Captain Child's Su ltan, Mr. Jones's The Disowned, Mr. G. 0. Moore'a Scamp, Sir E. Mostyn's Warwick, Mr. Lamb den's Yespasia n , and Captain Lamb's Manfred. The distance was about four miles (two miles out and back, the winning flags being placed in a field about half a voile to the left of Dunchurch. There were about thirty-two fences of a moderate character and one brook rather difficult. The first three entered the last field together, Foreigner winning rather cleverly, by superior stoutness. Mid might fell, after clearing the brook, broke her back, and was killed. 2lanfred had two falls, nor did The Disowned, Vespasian, Scamp, &c., escape. The race was for a Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, with 100 added. -- • GREAT LANCAsHIR,E COURSING MEETING).--MY. Clayton's Sultan, who won the Gold Cu p (value 100 sovs., with 640 added), is brother to Empress, out of Clio, by Tramp, and is two years old. Air. Bennett's Rocket (who received 80 sovs. as second dog) has proved himself an excellent dog, having run more than twenty courses in the past and present week, is upwards of six. years who old, and who prev iousl y defeated Mr. Swainson's Smuggler ( re ceived yo sovs. as third). The allowances to the two latter dogs were deducted from the winner's stake. 177 hares were killed in the several courses during six days. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Duko of Grafton's hounds meet on Wednesday at Stoke Plain ; Friday, at Creslow-1 1 . Mr. Payne's hounds on Wednes Maidwell—nw day at Wiick Warren ; . Thurs day, at Sulby Hall; S a turday, at quarter to 11 Mr. Errington's hounds on Thursday at Kibworth ; Saturday, at Beaumanor- 10 . The Norfolk hounds on Thursday at Crayfish,Thursford—hf-p. 10. Sir J. Flower's hounds on Wednesday at Wilby ; Friday, at Hill Harling-11. Mr. Villebois's staghounds on Thursday at Wareham Hall-11. The Knapton harriers on Friday at Bacten Abloey-1 1 . Mr. Sandiford's hounds on Friday at Sculthorpe—half-past 10. Mr. R. Bagge's harriers on Saturday at Wareham Hall-11. Sir T. Stanley's hounds on Saturday at the Two Mills—hf-p. lO . Mr. Drake's hounds on Thursday at Charndon Common ; Satur. day, at Workworth Village—half-past 10. The Oakley hounds on Thursday at Kempston Wood ; Saturday, at Snolson-11. The Cambridgeshire on Friday at Waresley Turnpike—hf-p. lO . The Brighten harriers on Wednesday at the Racecourse; Friday, at the Dyke-11. Sir C. Constable's hounds on Thursday at Burton Agnes; Sa turday, at Holme River Head-11. The Berkshire hounds on Wednesday at Horsepath ; Saturday, at Workworth Village. Mr. F ane ' s h arr iers on Thursday at Pot scomb ; Saturday, at Sheepleys. The Atherstone hounds on Thursday at Nailstone Village ; Sa turday, at Newnham—q uar ter to 11. The East Sussex hounds on Wednesday a t Kin g' s Standing Hill ; Thursday, at Sheffield Park ; Saturday, at Danny—quarter to 11. Colonel G. Wyndham's hounds on Thursday at Williams Wood ; Saturday, at Liphook—half-past 11. The D u k e o f Rutland's hounds on Wednesd a y at Hun g erton ; Friday, at Weaver's Lodge—half-past 10. Mr. Muster's hounds en Thursday at Straggletitorpe ; Saturday, at the Hut-11. The Rufford hounds on Thursday at Hockerton ; Saturday, at Park Hall—half-past 10. Lord Seagrave s hounds on Saturday at Broadway Country. r. D. Radcliffe's hounds on Wednesday at Hatfield Woodside; Friday, at Jewin Green—half-past 10. ...The Duke of Beaufort's hounds on Wednesday at Hawkesbury Upton; Thursday, at Hullavington ; Saturday, at Dyrham Park. Th e Surrey and Kent staghounds on Friday at Leatherhead- 11 . Th e Cleveland on Thursday at Hemlington Blue Bell—hf-p. 10. The Hurworth hounds on Saturday at Beverley Wood-10. The Sinnington hounds on Friday at Appleton Common-9. The Duke of Cleveland's hounds on Friday at at Hilton Village-11. Lord H a rewood's on Wednesd a y at Scoles ; Friday, Wilstrip. Mr. Giles's hounds on Saturday at Collin Park-10. The Badsworth hounds on Thursday at Ackworth Moor Top: Saturday, at Bretton Village—half-past 10. Mr. Foljambe's on 'Wednesday at Wi tham ; Thursday, at Eaton, The new coinage of Queen Victoria has been struck ; but it is said not to be so tasteful or rich as might have been expected. The effigy of the Queen is without any emblem of sovereignty, quite plain ; and, though not a bad likeness, has none of that intellectual character which a Lawrence or a Chantry would have thrown into it. The reverse is a shield, but its outline is not so rich or highly ornamented as that of George IV., and appears much narrower. We regret to announce the death of Lady Elizabeth Russell, which took place on the 13th ult., at Aix, in Provence. her Ladyship was the eldest an d last surviving daughter of the lat e Earl of Louth, and at her death was in her 86th year. She is succeeded in all her titles (baronies of Athenry and Delvin) and her estates by her on l y son, Thomas H. D. Henry Sewell, grandson and heir , we believe, of the late learned Sir Thomas Sewell. On Saturday morning, so early as ten o'clock, the Duke of Wellington was down at Blackwell, for the purpose of inspecting the great western steam-vessel. His Grace, tvho drove himself down, without any one accompanying him except his footman, and a boy who sat on the dickey beside him, expressed his admiration both of the dimensions and the fitting -up of the vessel, which sails, it is said, for Canada on the 27th inst. The late accident to the Duke of Wellington's plimton, which occurred while his Grace was going to join Sir John Cope's hounds, was owing to his Grace letting fall the reins whilst putting on his gloves. The Duke kept his Seat, and called to a man who was at work on the road to stop the horses, and he did so by holding his spade before them. The illustrious Duke had a narrow escape. MIITgOPOLIS IMPROVEMENTS.—Petitions, nu merously and respectably signed by the owners and occupiers of houses and property in Holborn and its vicinity, have al ready been presented to the House of Commons, and others are in preparation, suggesting the formation of a new street along the east side of Lincoln's Inn-fields, instead of one - which it is proposed to forma on the west side. Some tho roughfare of the kind is greatly needed, as there is no direct (and_ scarce any indirect) junction between t he g reat streets Holborn and the Strand, except Chancery and Drury-lanes, both extremely narrow and inconvenient, and nearly a quarter of a mile apart. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, IS3B. posed of letters, papers, and reminiscences supplied by Lord St. Vincent himself, and wherever these documents express opinions in the truth or expediency of which Capt. Brenton does not heartily coincide, they are sure to be followed by short but clever dissertations on their fallacy or inapplicability. In this portion of the work Captain Bren ton has rendered a most important service to young naval officers, who might be misled as much by the errors as in spired by the heroism, of the Earl of St. Vincent. The following extract from the work will illustrate this obeer vation. It refers to the impressment of seamen : The natural impatience of the seamen to be freed from the re. straint of a ship of war, and. to be early on board the merchant ships which usually fit out and sail in the spring of the year, occasioned, as is usually the case at the conclusion of a war, partial ebullitions of mu tiny. The only one of any consequence was that which occurred on board the Temeraire, in Bantry Bay. Rear-Admiral George Campbell had his flag on board of her. I have given the particulars of this fatal event in the ' Naval History,' and only recur to it now with sorrow and regret, because my ill u strious friend, the Earl St. Vincent, was at the head of the Admiralty at the time. The language of the officers at the wardroom table was, in all probability, the chief existing cause, and, because they were not punished, the seamen were, with a degree of severity which, although it might be justified under the peculiar situa tion of the empire, yet I shall never cease to deplore, as one of the most fatal blots on our naval annals. It was an unkind and ungrateful re turn to the brave fellows who, during a war of unexampled success and glory, had faithfully served their country. When they saw the olive branch of peace, the fruits of their own valour, they were only too eager to seize the first fruits of it ; stimulated thereto by the intemperate and thoughtless language of their officers, who declared their intention of innnediately retiring on half-pay, as nothing could be gained by going to the West Indies in time of peace. As soon as the orders were received for the squadron, of which the Temeraire was one to prepare for a voyage to that destination, the seamen of that ship declared they would not go. The mutiny was almost instantly suppressed, by the determination of the Rear_Admiral and his officers, and the ring-leaders were secured. Here I wish I could draw a veil over all that passed. But, I dare not utter what is false, if I dare sot conceal what is true. I was present at the trial in Portsmouth Harbour, and saw the prisoners. They were the noblest fellows, with the most undaunted and prepossessing mien, I ever beheld—the beau ideal of British sailors ; tall and athletic, well.dressed, in blue jackets, red waistcoats, and trowsers white as driven snow.' Their hair, like the tail of the lion, hung in a cue down their back. At that time, this last article was considered, as indeed it really was, the distinguished mark of a thorough-bred seaman. Unfortunately, these gallant fellows were ignorant as they were impatient, and the custom of the time was to hang every one who should dare to dispute the orders of his superior officers. Had as much reward been held out for good conduct as there was punishment for bad, we should never have required such exam ples, or wanted seamen in time of need ; but our navy had till then been managed by men whose minds were not sufficiently enlightened to en. able them to see that nething more than a simple act of justice was want ing to satisfy the seamen. All the worst men, or what were express ' eively called the " raff," should have been paid their wages and dis. charged;htkhianev ge,definitivesian charged nd t tfe b yrw e cwi s i best should ri o sgo u eivi l ie d vddi c g, v art e , dgebameer even regardless ost e dhtoaefei then ni theet employment, oxyni Governmente e d nn o c t u e: b. either e hers pay, hi until idel Narrow-minded political economists, often the most extravagant beings in the land, will tell us that we could not afford this outlay. I tell them, in reply, that they know nothing about the matter. If we had afforded it, we should have saved millions ; we should have saved the last American war, and all the noble ships we lost by capture—ships taken from us by the very men whom our political economists had driven, by their ill-timed parsimony, into the American navy. Only let us make the experiment ; give every able-bodied seamen, of good character, 41. per month, of twenty-eight days, or 521. a.year, and you need not give yourselves any more concern about America or impress ment; you need not hang or flog any more of your brave defenders: for it is only the bravest, though often the most ignorant, who commit them selves. The only punishment you would need then would be to disrate, from able-bodied to ordinary, in time of war, and turn the culprit on shore, as wenow do, in time of peace. Unhappily, we had not studied these matters in I SO°. Impressment had always, as was supposed, filled up our ships ; but no one ever cal culated the price at which the men were purchased. True you had the men, but without their hearts ; they never loved you, nor their country. for denying them the common rights of Englishmen—a participation in the blessings of that Constitution of which you so justly boast, and of which you so unjustly rob them. As a Cabinet Minister, and more particularly as First Lord of the Admiralty, I shall always regret that Lord St. Vincent sanctioned the punishment of those unfortunate men. But it was what was then " the manners and customs in such cases used at sea." The same wayward policy which murdered poor Byng executed those men. It was then fatally and erroneously thought necessary. We now know that a dif ferent and milder course will answer much better. The execution of Chesterman and the other mutineers of the Tenteraire cost us snore than I am willing to believe or to own ; but it certainly lost us for a time the good will and affection of our sailors. Of this truth I was made fully sensible, not only in our passage to the West Indies,with Admiral Camp bell, but in all the subsequent years of the war up to 1814. We could perceive among the seamen a sullen and lifeless obedience, a scrupulous attention to all orders, but no voluntary service; they did their duty from fear, not love. When we crossed the tropics, on our passage to the West Indies with that squadron, I observed scarcely any of the usual saturnalia, so common and cheering in the dull monotony of a trade ind ; in short, we had the effigies of the seamen, but their animation was fled. I have raade this digression purposely to call the attention of the Government and the profession to the great evil of neglecting the training and education of our sailors, to the better rewarding of good conduct; and to making not only expulsion in peace, but loss of servitude and emolument in war, the only punishment for negligence or crime. 'File Portrait of Lord St. Vincent is very finely en graved, and is, we understand, an excellent likeness. LAY S OF LEISURE HOURS. BY LADY E. STVART WOATLEY. In Two VoLs. London, Hookham, 1838. In these Lays we distinctly trace all the beauties, and nearly all the defects, for which the numerous poetical com positions of Lady E. S.Wortley are distinguished. They have all the vigour, freshness, and masculine freedom of thought and expression of the noble authoress's already published works ; but they are hardly less blurred with false feeling, a n d th e parade of " woes unutterable," with which it would be hard indeed to find any class of readers that could heartily sym pathize. We cannot understand upon what principle— now pub lication cigi wo man,pslee—e a now that the Sat an i c sc h o ol of poetry is shorn of its all en grossing,:dmighu ct h feeling less but a intrinsically aws oLady aadny s unmeritedvorrichlytlWortley. popularity—anygifted dulwdhazard hazs atre d t of such stanzas as those beginning— " To thee I give my soul—my very soul Crown my Devotion's hope with one sweet thought, One thought of thine shall still seem worth the whole Of my deep dreamy being." And again— " One thought of thine shall still appear to me More precious than my soul's existence." And the lines commencing— " Love me not—love me not—l could not be A sorrow and a bitterness to thee. I would net be thy chastisement, thy doom, And shouldst thou love me, such must I become !" But these stanzas, and some others which we might point out, are, after all, no great drawback upon the me rits of volumes, in which there is so much to admire. " I claim not constancy from thee," is full of deep womanly feeling. The " Ladye and the Warrior" is a fine ballad. The poem on a" Fete held in the Open Air," is to us the most delightful in these volumes. We equally admire the phi losophy and the feeling of the verses beginning with— "Oh ! Beautiful are festivals I 'Tie well to set apart Some hours to soften and to soothe the harassed human heart." In truth, one of the worst signs of the present money exploring age, is the absence of the festive spirit that for merly pervaded all classes of society. Business has be come the great affair of human life. Before men are con sidered to have acquired a right to unbend their brows and take their places at the board of human enjoyment, they must accumulate a heap ten times as large as would be ne cessary to supply their remaining wants ; and the conse quence is, that, in nine cases out of ten, death overtakes them before they are even ready to taste of the banquet. The " Visit to a country House" is one of the most amus ing satires upon a very troublesome class of persons that has appeared since the publication of Cowper's " John Gil pin." Lady Emily Stuart Wortley is a professed admirer of the Duke of Wellington, but we do not see how su ch a s entiment can justify an attack upon " Napoleon in the Tomb !" in dishonouring whose ashes En g land has disho noured herself. There is a fable about a dead lion, which those who cite the bones of Napoleon before their judgment only to insult and mock them , migh t study with ad vantage. We forgot to mention that these volumes are dedicated to Miss Landon, among the sincerest of whose ' friends the noble authoress subscribes herself. iad I _ Y. POPULAR LAW DICTIONAR HENRY WHEATON, LL. DI Longman, London, 1838. " In this work," says the author, Mr. Tomlins, a pro fessional gentleman, " an attempt has been made to supply to the public a familiar exposition of the Law, without lead_ ing the reader into disquisitions foreign to the purpose of ordinary inquiry, or embarrassing him with technical phraseology." A legal work composed on such a plan was much wanted, for hitherto most productions of the sort have been defaced and rendered nearly unintelligible by professional technicalities ; and the little volume before us will go far to supply this desideratum. It is plain to see in every page that it has been compiled with great care, and is the result of diligent and unwearied assiduity• That portion of it which regards the state of the law as it affects the various order of Insurances is full of useful practical details, arranged in the clearest and most compendious form. SCANDINAVIA, ANCIENT AND MODERN ; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. In 2 Vols. By ANDREW CRicuroiv,_Esq., LL•D., and Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd. These volumes, forming Numbers XXIII. and XXIV. of the " Edinburgh Cabinet Library," comprise within themselves a very accurate and interesting a ccount of the mythology, government, laws, manners, and institutions of the early inhabitants of Scandinavia ; an historical sketch of the leading political events in which the rulers of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway tool; a part, Irom ti - 2e rewotest period in their annals till the accession of the reigning Sovereigns ; and a general description of the present state of society—literary, political, and commercial—in these king doms. The Authors are men of distinguished ability, and the latter having resided many years at Copenhagen, in the honourable capacity of Representative of the United States at the Court of Denmark, enjoyed, and took advantage of, opportunities rarely afforded to the more numerous class of modern historians. The wood-cut embellishments are but indifferently executed—so much so, indeed, that we would prefer the volumes without them. Unless engravings are executed in a superior style of art, they rather detract from, than augment, the intrinsic value of standard works in Li terature. The " Edinburgh Cabinet Library" is conducted with judgment, care, and ability. SOUTHEY'S POETICAL WORKS, VOL. 4. London, Longman, 1838. The present volume, which contains the poem of " Tha laba, the Destroyer," a production on which the public has long since pronounced its judgment, is illustrated with two engravings from the pencil of Finden ; the one, a sketch of the far-famed city of Bagdad, and the other of the ruins of Babylon. They are both executed in a manner creditable to the artist's skill. ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. Edinburgh, Black, 1838. The second part of the sixteenth volume of this Ency clopaedia is now lying before us, and, among a variety of articles, contains three elaborate treatises on optics, painting, and ornithology, penned in a most learned spirit, and with a thorough relish for the subject. The one on optics is, we suspect, from the pen of the Editor, Macvey Napier— at any rate, it is a dissertation that would do no discredit to his pen. The remarks on painting are the production of a writer who understands the principles of the art, and is not a mere dry chronicler of its rise and progress. The volume is embellished with numerous plates, not a few of which are devoted to ornithological subjects. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET. (From the Morning Papers of this day, Monday.) TINIEL_What occurred at the late Bank meeting will have prepared the public for some unusual proceedings on the part of the Directors, since it was obvious that they can no longer satisfy the expectations of the proprietors by keeping to the ordinary course. They now appear in a character they have never sustained before, that of becoming direct exporters of bullion. It is understood that gold to the amount of half a million, if not much more, is immediately to be shipped off for the United States on their account, and consigned to Mr. Cowell, their agent at New York. They have thus made merchants of themselves as completely and effectually as though they had received in a direct way a consign ment of cotton or indigo. To the regular merchant there ac e periods constantly recurring in which gold and silver, whether in the shape of coin or otherwise, become ob jects of merchandise, and of export or import, as the case may be, at a profit. Those who have remittances therefore to make to America, would find in gold such an article of profit at the present time as seldom falls in their way, the exchange being 5 or 6 per cent. in favour of New York, and the expense of transmitting bullion probably not more than 13 or 2 per cent. Why should the Bank step in to rob the merchant of this advantage, which strictly belongs to him, and ought not to be interfered with by an overgrown monopoly of this description ? The Directors cannot plead, which would be their only shadow of an excuse, that there can be any necessity for, or public utility in, this interference; the bullion, if is is to go, will go fast enough in the common course of trade, but being thus sent in a large mass at once, the market will be effectually spoiled for the merchant. If they imagine that the measure will ultimately turn the exchange, and prevent the exportation of what further gold may be wanted to enable the American banks to resume specie payments, they are much mittaken ; and if the drain goes on beyond a certain point, we shall find them, as they have done on many former occasions, interfering in the con trary sense with the merchants, and refusing the accommoda tion of discount, not as a question of security, bat because they suspect that the proceeds are to be sent across the Atlantic in bullion. POST. —We were informed this afternoon, and we believe the statement is entitled to credit, that a shipment of gold to New York, for account of the Bank of England, has been de termined upon—that a million of sovereigns are, in fact, to be immediately put on board one of the packets, probably a Liverpool vessel, bound to that port. It is said to be con signed, in the first instance, to the house of King, 'Ward, and Co., though it will, we presume, be placed, on its arrival, at the disposal of the agent of the Bank of England, Mr. Cowell. Such an arrangement on the part of the Bank Di rectors cannot but be attended with the most beneficial results to both communities, for our manufacturers will scarcely feel the influence of it less than the merchants of the United States. Active Spanish Bonds, including the unpaid Coupons, have fallen to 21i to I. The cause of the late movement in these securities is, at length, explained, although by no means, as it would appear, to the satisfaction of those who have had the folly to invest their money in them, under the impression that some financial arrangement, from which the bondholders were to derive great benefit, was under consideration at Ma drid. In a Morning Paper of this day we find the following correspondence upon the subject " Our Madrid letters are of the 7th instant. Report speaks of a loan of four hundred millions of teals, which the Finance Minister bad succeeded in nearly obtaining from certain capi talists, but not from M. Laffitte, as some Journals hint, nor yet from R o thschild or M. Toreno's financial friends." The " report " of the Finance Minister having " nearly" concluded a bargain with certain capitalists for the advance of four millions sterling may obtain credit with some persons, but we are not ourselves of the number. It is, however, enough to know that the negotiation has failed. The affected assur ance that it was not from M. Laffitte, nor Messrs. Rothschild, nor from the friends of Toreno, that this large sum was to have been procured, borders upon the ludicrous, and has, in deed, been made a subject of merriment among the frequenters of the Stock Exchange. For our own part, we were satisfied f ro m the first that it was nothing but a cruel hoax, that the sharks of the Alley ivere practising upon their unfottunate victims. The Share Market does not recover from its late depres sion. There was very little business doing to-day in any description. Great Western Railway were marked 27 to rem ., Eastern Counties .4- to prem., London and Brighton 2 to 3 prem., and Manchester and Birmingham 31 to 4- 4 1 - prem . per share. Some new schemes, which have very much the appearance of bubbles, have been brought upon the market, and although they have not found admission into the official lists of prices, we understand they have been " rigged" to a considerable extent. We recommend the readers of the Morning Post to make some inquiry into the merits of these speculations before they embark their property in them. The probability is, from all we can hear, that they will result in much loss. By the ship Norfolk, we have price- currents from the Mau ritius to the 19th of December. They quote the exchange on London, for Government bills at thirty days' sight, 1 per cent. prem., and for private paper at ninety days' sight, 21 to 4 per cent. discount. The total amount of sugar exported from the Island between the 12th Sept. and the 18th of Dec., i s s tated to have been 23,793,134 lbs. MORNING CORONICLE.--The proceedings in the English Stock Market to-day (Saturday) do not furnish any matter for comment, there being in fact scarcely any business trans acted, and the quotations remaining the same as yesterday ; name ly, Consols, 924 to 93 for money, and 93 to a for the ac count ; and Exchequer Bills, 62 to 64 prem. Brighton Railway Shares, which were the chief attrac tion in the Share Market for a long time, seem to be gra dually becoming less speculative, and are, therefore receding by degrees. They closed to-day at 21 to 3 prem. In the others there is veey little alteration to be shown. Bir mingham, old, left off at 85 to 90 prem.; ditto new, 261 to 271 prem.; Southampton, 451 to 464 per share; ditto new, 214 to 221 prem. ; Great Western 27 to 28 prem. ; Leeds and Manchester, 18 to 20 prem.; Man chester and Birmingham, 34 to 44 prem.; Birmingham and Derby, 2 to 1 dis. Blackwall, 34 to 1 prem.; Commercial ditto, 21 to 4 prem.; Greenwich 3to 2 dis.; South-Eastern, 1 dis. to par; Dublin and Kilkenny, 1i- to 2 per share ; and North Midland 6 to 7 prem. Foreign Securities generally were heavy, but there was very little done in them. Spanish Active left o ff at 214 to 1, or 204 to 21 ex coupons ; Deferred, 74 to ; Passive, 41,- to 4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 30,L 2 to 31 ; ditto Three per Cents., 204 t o ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1021 to 4; ditto Two and-a-half-per-Cents., 521 to ; Brazilian, 76 to 77 ; Colombian, 9 81 to I ; Mexican, 28-1 to ; Peruvian, 20 to 21 ; and Belgian, 1024 to 1031. Our contemporary the Times stated a few days since that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was about to borrow, 2,000,000/. from the Bank of England. As the Governor of that institution denied that any such arrangement was in progress, or even that the Directors had the power to`, make any s uc h l o an, "it is for Mr. Spring Rice then to explain," says our contemporary, '‘ what is meant by his] !late act for applying the sum of 2,000,000/. to the servie 1.0. , the year 1838, and what are the public to . understan Eby its description as part of the sum now remaining in .the Exchequer.' Till this is explained the opinion in the City will be that the whole is a juggle between him and the Bank." We scarcely could have supposed that our contem porary could have found out a "juggle" in so plain a case, for if he had reflected he must have been aware that there is always a balance of 4,000,0001. of the public money in the hands of the Bank. By turning to the evidence of Mr. Horsley Palmer before the Bank Charter Committeee of 1832, it will be seen to be so explained, as, indeed, it must be evident to every body of any financial knowledge that there must always be some reserve in the hands of the Government for emergencies of an extraordinary kind. " Remaining in the Exchequer" means only remaining in the Bank of England, for no money is ever kept in reality at the Exchequer, and the Act of Parliament which the Chancellor has applied for is merely to allow him to dr aw t 2,000,0001. from the Government balance at the Bank. It is true that this is caused by the falling off of the revenue he may be heard upon his former petition, (presented Mare'A and the extraordinary expewes which are required for the 9,) complaining of non-compliance r,ith the Standing Orders, Canadian war ; but then it is to be hoped that w;th the return notwithstanding the said petition was not presented three clear of spring trade will revive, the revenue increase, the Canadian days before the sitting of the Committee on the petition for war be brought to a close, and, consequently, the money now the Bill. Referred to the Select Committee on petitions for drawn from the Bank of England be replaced in the course private Bills. of a short period. At all events, our Contemporary must perceive that his allusions about juggling between Mr. Spring Rice and the Bank Directors are wholly refuted by the refer ence which we have made of the printed Evidence and Report of the year 1832 ; and so far from the true effect having been produced in the fall of Consols which took place a few clays since through the error of our Contemporary, it is clear that the funds ought rather to have risen from the circumstance that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is only drawing out his true balance from the Bank of England, and that the nation is 4,000,0001. richer than our Contemporary anticipated. THURSDAY, MARCH 15. Glasgow Waterworks Bill.—Petition of John Douglas, znd John Boyle Gray, Esqrs., complaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders. Bury Waterworks Bill.—Read first time. Exeter Commercial Gas.--Petition of Samuel and John Eyre Kingdon, complaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders. Referred to the Select Committee on peti tions for private Bills. Exmouth Market Bill.—Reported. Necropolis Cemetery Bill.—Petition of the Churchwardens and Vestrymen Saint Pancras against. Referred to the Com mittee on the Bill. Counsel ordered. MORNING HERALD. —lt appears by the last advices from Bom bay, which reach down to the 7th of January, that the apathy of the Government of that Presidency, with regard to its local improvements and the reformation of some of its public insti tutions, has created no small feeling of dissatisfaction amongst the most respectable portion of that community, whether of European or native origin, who seem to feel that all enter prise, public or private, is completely stifled by the little en couragement given on the part of the Government to those improvements so essentially necessary in a comparatively young country. In contradistinction to the sweeping reforms of the home Government, which threaten the ruin of the noblest establishments of the mother country, abuses of all kinds canker the institutions which should promote the march of civilization as well as fraternization between the natives and their British fellow-subjects; whilst the slothful attempts on the part of the Government of the Presidency to effect local improvements appear to mock the efforts of both native and European industry and enterprise. Indeed it would appear that Sir Robert Grant, who promised so much in anticipation for the Presidency, now that he is well harnessed in his Go vernorship, had fallen into that description of lethargy which has so strikingly affected his noble relative at home, and swamped his good intentions in the dark deep streams of the Lethelan waters. One of the addresses to Sir Robert Grant reminds him of his professions in the following terms : To India your connections are indebted for their greatness, and yourself for your political elevation ; and, if from no higher principle than ordinary gratitude, you are loudly called upon to exercise your influence as a;Governor, and your energy as a private individual, for the welfare of a community, which has contributed so largely to the fortunes of your house. " You will not dare to run counter to the tenor of your pre vious professions; you will not dare to recede from the prin ciples which have heretofore actuated your conduct in connec tion with a reforming administration. Whatever your faults may be, you will not desert the cause in which you have em barked, although your lords paramount may disapprove of the measures taken by you as their deputy, and order your recal or they may pass a vote of approbation on your non-interference with the established order of things." It is to be hoped that this gentle hint may have aroused Sir Robert from his slumbers, and stimulated his senses to the im portant duties of his office. The last commercial advices from New York state that Mr. Cowell, the agent of the Bank of England, was in very active movement alternately in that city and Philadelphia. He is said to be engaged in collecting the assets due to the suspended American houses, but there was some difficulty in realizing those assets, in consequence of the general want of credit and the prostration of the currency system. Yet in New York it was confidently asserted that, after making every allowance, two of the houses, Wilde's and Wilson's (Wiggins' are not mentioned), will come out of the revulsion with considerable surpluses, after paying all their debts. The impression has obtained in New York that the Directors of the Bank of England, as advised by Mr. Cowell, are now satisfied that their hasty restrictive policy of 1836 was the cause of half the ca lamity in the commercial relations between the two countries, and that it is probable, therefore, that they will shange their policy, and that hereafter Mr. Cowell, or some other• able i man, will be stationed permanently at New York as an agent to I I collect and transmit to London correct information of the future mighty movements of America in commercial affairs. This is all very fine on the part of the New Yorkers, but they talk only of the restriction, without any allusion to the primary causes of the mischief—namely the encouragement given to a fahely ex• tended trade and credit, originally fostered by the Bank o England for the sheer sake of making the most of its monopoly. PRIVATE BILLS IN PARLIAMENT UP TO THIS DAY. RAILWAYS, CANALS, BRIDGES, &c. MONDAY, MARCH 12. Taw Vale Railway and Dock Bill.—Read first time. Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway.—Petition for Bill repor ted ; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway.—Petition reported; Bill ordered to be brought in. TUESDAY, NIARCII 13. Ladykirk and Norham (Tweed) Bridge.—Petition for Bill reported. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill.—Petitions in favour, from Kelso, Irvine, Montrose, Lochwinnoch, Falkirk, An struther Easter, Ayr, Dundee, (two petitions) Dunfermline, and Kincardine.—Read second time and committed. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14. Bristol ( St. Philips') Pridge.—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Montgomeryshire ( Western Branch) Canal Bill.—Or dered for second reading read, motion made and question proposed, "that the Bill be now read a second time;" amend ment proposed, that the Bill be read a second " upon this day six months."—Amendment carried by 77 against the Bill, and three in favour of it, consequently the Bill was thrown out. Oxford and Great Western Union Railway Bill.—Read a second time and committed. Newtylc and Coupar Angus Railway.—Report (9th March) from Select Committee on Standing Orders read ; Bill or dered to be brought in. London and Croydon 'Railway (No. 1) Bill.—Petitions against, from James Anderson, Philip Zachariah Cox, and Ro bert Henry Bartholomew, and Paving Commissioners of East Southwark ; referred to the Committee on the Bill ; Counse' ordered. Bolton and Preston Railway Bill.—Read first time. Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway Bill.—Re ported. FRIDAY, MARCII 16. St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway Bill.—Read first time. Great Central Irish Railway.—Petition for Bill reported; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. ROADS, INCLOSURES, IMPROVEMENTS, &c. MONDAY, HARM 12. Fishguard Harbour Bill.—Petitions against, from Directors appointed under the Fishguard Harbour Act, and proprietors of shares under the Fishguard Harbour Act. Sutton (Cambridge) Inclosure Bill.—Read a second time and Committed. Hereford Improvement.—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Bishops' Castle and Munslow-road.—Report (9th March) from Select Committee on petitions for private Bills read ; Bill ordered to be brought in. Lower King's Ferry Road Bill.—Read first time. Metropolis Improvements.—Petition of John Richards, Esq., praying to be beard against the projected line of a street from Westminster-bridge to St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark.—Referred to the Select Committee on Metropo lis Improvements. Dean Forest Roads.—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Aylesbury and Thame Road. —Petition:for Bill reported ; Bill ordered to be brought in. Fishguard Harbour Bill.—Order for second reading read ; after motion and division in favour, Bill read second time and committed. TUESDAY, MARCH 13. Dundalk and Dunleer Road.—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Linlithgow Roads.—Petition for Bill reported; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. Twyford and Theale Roads.—Petition for Bill reported ; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. Kirkstall, Ilkly, and Shipley Roads. —Petition for Bill re ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Dudley Hill and liillinghall Road.—Petition for Bill re ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Bishop's Castle and Munslow Inclosure Bill.—Read a first time. Leamington Priors Improvement Bill.—Petition for pro vision. WEDNESDAY, MARCII 14. Sheffield Improvement Bill.—Read a first time. Combinartin Road.—Petition for additional provision re ported ; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders._Read second time and committed. Tenby Improvement and Harbour Bill.—Petition of Direc tors of the Bristol Dock Company, against; referred to the Committee on the Bill. THURSDAY, MARCH 15. Gazely ( Suffolk) Inclosure.—Order (9th March) for re ferring the Report on the petition for the Bill to the Select Committee on Standing Orders read and discharged.—Bill ordered to be brought in. FRIDAY, MARCH 16. Notting-Hill Footway Bill.—A petition of the Church wardens, Ovinseers, and inhabitants of Paddington, against, Dean Forest Roads Bill.—Read first time. Nottingham-fields Inclosure Bill.—Read first time. Kirkstall, Ilkley, and Shipley Road Bill.—Read first time. Wadsley, Langset, and Sheffield Road.—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Dudley Hill and Road Bill.—Read first time. MISCELLANEOUS. MONDAY, MARC!! 12. Fleetwood Tontine.—Report (6th March) from Select Committee on petitions. Private Bills read. Bill ordered to be brought in. Belfast Waterwoks, (No. 2. )—Petition of the President and assistants of the Belfast Charitable Society, complaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders. Referred to the Select Committee on petitions for private Bills. TUESDAY, NIARC/I 13. AberbrotliNvick Harbour.—Petition for Bill reported, report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. Fishguard Harbour Bill.—Committee nominated. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14. British Pledge Society.—Petition for Bill reported. Bury (Lancaster) Waterworks.—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in. Walsall Market Bill.—Read second time and committed. Lough Foyle and Louth Swilly Drainage.—Petition 01 John Wallace, agent to the Marquis of Donegall, praying that FRIDAY, MARCH 16. Belfast Waterworks, (No. 2.)—Petitions complaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, from owners of property, and James Chaine, Esq. Referred to the Select Committee on petitions for private Bills. Lough Stilly Embankment.—Petition of Thomas Isaac Dimsdale, complaining of non-compliance with the Standibg Orders. Referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for private Bills. Glasgow Waterworks.—Petition of John Douglas, and John Boyle Gray, Esqrs , (presented March 15,) read. Motion made and question proposed, " That the Report on the petition for the Bill be recommitted to the Select Com mittee on petitions for private Bills." Motion, by leave, withdrawn. Dec Bridge Road Bill.—Reported. Tramore (Waterford) Drainage.—Petition for leave to pre sent a petition for a Bill. Referred to the Select Committee on petitions for private Bills. Birmingham Equitable Gas Bill.—Petitions against, from Magistrates, Bankers, and others of Birmingham, late part ners in the Birmingham and Equitable Gll3 Company, Bir mingham and Staffordshire Gas Company, Birmingham Gas and Coke Company, and shareholders in the late Birming ham Equitable Gas Company." Ashby-de-la- Zouch Small Debts Bill.—Petition of Com missioners of the Small Debt Court, and inhabitants of Loughborough against. Referred to the Committee on the Bill. Counsel ordered. Glasgow 'Waterworks Bill.—Motion made, and question proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time." De bate arising. Motion made, " That the debate be adjourned till this day fortnight." Huuse divided, Ayes 34, Noes 111. Alain question put and agreed to. Bill read second time and committed. Anti Dry -rot Company Bill.—To be read second time on Monday next. . _ Exmouth Market Bill.—Read third time and passed. Birmingham Equitable Gas Bill.—Petition of the High Sheriff and Chairman ofd meeting of inhabitants of Birrning ham in favour. Motion made, and question proposed, " that the Bill be now read a second time." Amendment proposed that it be read " upon this day six moms." Amendment carried. Bill lost. CRIMINAL RET RNS. METROPOLITAN PO. ,ICE.-1837. Comparative Statements for the years 1835, 1836, 1837 831,1832,1833,1834, Summa- Bills Let Dis. Corn- COll - Found, charged 1 rily Con. 'cars. into • !victed, or mitt.ed victed Acquit. or not by i agis.! for aniSen- ed. Custody trates ' H B el a d il t . o Trial tenced. Prose cuted. - - -- -.- ...,........m.5... 1811 72,824 48,026* 21,i43 '2955 1932 618 251 1832 77,543 50,429-1- 23,453 3(135 2509 591 306 1833 09,959 45,4961 20,791 3672 2046 631 2' 9 1,34 64,269 34,49: 26,302 :14E8 9558 531 329 18.33 63,474 32,544 27,817 3113 2237 CI , 8 268 1836 63,384 29,776 30,433 3175 2437 495 243 1837 64,416 33,043 28,345 3025 2'266 , 504 258 Including 23,787 drunken cases dismissed by superintendents. Including 25,702 drunken eases dismissed by superintendents. Including 18,487 drunken cases, up to August, dismissed by superintendents. ARRIVAL OF FOUR OF THE DOR- CHESTER LABOURERS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) PLYMOUTH, MiRCII 17.—The ship Jan Berry, John Robson master, arrived here yesterday from Sydney. last from New Zealand, with timber for her Majesty's Dockyard. She left Sydney on the Bth September for New Zealand, where she remained several weeks, and sailed on her voyage home on the 9th Nov. She has brought as passengers four of the men who were transported in 1834 for illegal combina tion, and who have since received a free pardon : their names are James Loveless, James Brine, Thomas Stanfield, and John Stanfield. Of the six who were sent to the colony, one has previously arrived, and one (Jas. Hammett) is left in New South Wales, his companions not being able to ascertain where he was, otherwise they would all have come together.. They have, since landing, been kindly received by Mr. Mort gag, of the Dolphin Inn, Barbican Quay, who has sbow,n them every attention. The captain and officers of the John Berry speak in the highest terms of their behaviour during the voyage. They leave here on Wednesday for Dorc'nester. James Loveless, with whom we have conversed, appears an intelligent, well-behaved man ; but he complains very much of the delay in communicating to him that a tree pardon had been sent out for him. He says that he o'.tly received it in November, 1836, while two were released, in the March pre vious. Various attempts were made to induce him to send home for his family, but he invariably refused, and at last he was ordered home. The convicts left Plymouth 10th April, 1834, and on their arrival were treated exactly as the other convicts. James Loveless was sent nearly 500 miles in the interior to work for a Scotchman named Maclian. He speaks in the most flattering terms of the beauty of the country. On Saturday Mrs. Hodgson had the honour of submitting to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, a finished proof of the engraving from Mr. Parris' '?ortrait of the Queen, with which her Royal Highness expressed herself much pleased. MARRIAGE IN FRANCE.—On Thursday, the 22d of March, the youthful, accomplished, and, rich Mademoi selle Rosalie Aglae Faure, only daughter and heiress of Mon sieur Louis Faure, of St. Peray, department de l'Ardeche, will be united in marriage to Monsieur le Comte Napoleon Lepic, of Andrisy Park, near St. Germain's. The bride groom is eldest son of the late Count Lepic, one of the faithful Generals of the French Empire, and godson of Buonaparte. MIRACLE IN THE RIVER OUSE.—Charlotte Beeby, late of Elstow, about 25 years of age, an inhabitant of Biddenham, has for the last five years been a cripple, with an affection of the back, the lower limbs being perfectly paralysed. The affection has resisted the medical treatment of many practitioners. Being acquainted with the primitive Episco palian church doctrines, taught by the Rev. Mr. Matthews, of this town, she conceived that if she were baptised by that gen tleman she would recover. Accordingly the Rev. Gentleman, at half-past ten at night, in the presence of a hundred specta tors, converts to his doctrines, on Monday proceeded to the river Biddenham, whither the deceased person was removed in a cart as usual, when moved about ; Mr. Matthews g o i ng i n t o the river to support her, immersed her in the water, and she immediately said, " Leave me go, I can walk," card walked out of the water, and ran some distance up a hill. till she was exhausted, but she has retained the use of her limbs ever since.—Bedford Mercury. A Kelso paper states that last week the Berwick fishermen had no occasion to go to sea, the fish having come on shore to them, glad to take shelter, it is conjectured, from the fury of the storm. The sho=e was literally covered with cod fish and haddocks, most of which were taken alive. At a meeting of Lord Fitzroy's supporte - ,s at the Woolpack Inn, Bury, on Monday evening lust, a memorial was unanimoudy agreed to by those present, calling on his Lordship either to resign his seat in Parrinment for that borough, or to give up his Government appointment, which latter had prevented him from keeping his pledge to his constituents of supporting the motion on the Ballot.—Bury Post. ALNIACK's.—The Ladies Patronesses have fixed the first ball for Thursday, the sth of April. From its being the only ball before Easter, and the same day on Which her Majesty holds her drawing-room, a more numerous qsemblage is anticipated than is usual at the first ball of the sqies... Information was received at the several polie- offices of a most horrible murder, which was committed 411b)ut four o'clock on the morning of the 6th instant, at aston, near Stamford, on the body of a single woman, aged atjout fifty four years, named Elizabeth Longfoot, whose housnwas plun dered at the same time the murder took place a a sum of money, the amount not exactly known, six small old-fash ioned silver tea-spoons, marked " A. L." or " P. L." a pair of small twisted sugar-tongs, and other articles. The cir cumstances of the case are at present involved in the deepest mystery, but the most active exertions are making in order to bring the dreadful affair to light. A Government reward of 1001. has been offered for such information as shall lead to the conviction of the offender, together with a free pardon to any accomplice, not being the person who actually perpetrated the murder; and the inhabitants of Easton have offered a further reward of 501. for the same purpose. 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